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    Airframe Family: Sikorsky S-58 / H-34 / HSS / Wessex
    Latest Model:UH-34D Seahorse
    Last Military Serial:148768 USMC
    Construction Number:58-1319
    Compressed ID:Sikorsky UH-34D sn 148768 USMC cn 5...
    Latest Owner or Location:Smithsonian, National Air and Space Museum, Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center, Chantilly, Reston, Virginia

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as an UH-34D.

    31 March 1961

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Marine Corps with BuNo 148768.

    Transferred to MCAS New River, NC.

    Transferred to NAS Jacksonville, FL.

    Transferred to MCAS Santa Ana, CA.

    Transferred to MCAS El Toro, CA.

    24 November 1970

    New serial number assigned: 3H0236 MASDC

    To Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum.

    Restored.
    Sikorsky Aircraft Corporation and Marine personnel of HMX-1 restored it at Quantico Marine Base in Virginia.

    Markings Applied: YP, 13
    In markings of a USMC aircraft of HMM-163, Da Nang AB, Vietnam, 1965.

    To American Helicopter Museum, Brandywine Airport, West Chester, PA.
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    By December 2005

    Placed on display with Smithsonian, National Air and Space Museum, Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center, Chantilly, Reston, VA.
    View the Location Dossier

    16 September 2011


    Photographer: Robert Nichols

    16 September 2011


    Photographer: Robert Nichols

    13 April 2012


    Photographer: Daniel L. Berek
    Notes: Sikorsky UH-34D Seahorse (148768)
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     U.S. Military Out of Service 2010 by Andy Marden
    Internet Sources
     Smithsonian, National Air and Space Museum
    U.S. Demobbed by Horrex, Ray, Boulanger, Dunn, McGhee and Wood
    United States Military Services Serial Number Lists by Joe Baugher
    Individual Contributors
     Mike Henniger
    Robert Nichols
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